Today I had the opportunity to participate in my first white elephant gift exchange. The exchange was held during a dinner and was a great time. My number was 4 out of about 30 so I didn’t have many choices of what I could choose for my gift. If you don’t know what a white elephant gift exchange is, here’s how it worked. The first person picked a gift and opened it, the second person picked a gift, opened it and decided if they would keep that gift or exchange it with the first person’s gift. It goes on like this until the last person can choose whichever gift they desire from any person that opened a gift. So number 4 is by all means not a desirable number. When my turn came along I knew what gift was waiting for me, obviously the largest gift on the table. I snatched it up, tore wrapping paper and threw stuffing out like it was my job, pulled out what appeared to be a metal fish slotted holder of some sort and quickly realized that some other lucky individual would be taking this home and not me. I had three other choices before me consisting of a small talking stuffed golfer, a picture frame and the gift I knew had my name written all over it. Read more…